Committee to choose a site for the new Municipal Airport included members of Lancaster Chamber of Commerce, American Business Club and Lancaster Aero Club. Pictured left to right are Jesse P. Jones, Sumner L. Brown, George P. Luckey, A.D. Howry, John H. Carter, Charles B. Weise, F.K. Brinkman, W.S. Raub, H.M. Hersh, William D. Grant, S.R. Slaymaker and G.W. Birrell. Photo take December 7, 1929. William Grant, Christiana businessman and president of Lancaster Airways, Inc. was killed in an auto accident three days later.
Photograph- Lancaster Post Office, North Duke Street, Lancaster. Now Lancaster City Hall. In background are the steeples of St. James Episcopal Church, First Presbyterian Church, Trinity Lutheran Church, First Reformed Church and the cupola of the Lancaster County Courthouse.
Photograph- Lancaster Post Office, North Duke Street, Lancaster. Now Lancaster City Hall. In background are the steeples of St. James Episcopal Church, First Presbyterian Church, Trinity Lutheran Church, First Reformed Church and the cupola of the Lancaster County Courthouse.
Description
Lancaster Post Office, North Duke Street, Lancaster. Now Lancaster City Hall. In background are the steeples of St. James Episcopal Church, First Presbyterian Church, Trinity Lutheran Church, First Reformed Church and the cupola of the Lancaster County Courthouse.
Photograph- Lancaster Post Office, North Duke Street. Now Lancaster City Hall. In background are the steeples of St. James Episcopal Church, First Presbyterian Church, Trinity Lutheran Church, First Reformed Church and the cupola of the Lancaster County Courthouse.
Photograph- Lancaster Post Office, North Duke Street. Now Lancaster City Hall. In background are the steeples of St. James Episcopal Church, First Presbyterian Church, Trinity Lutheran Church, First Reformed Church and the cupola of the Lancaster County Courthouse.
Description
Lancaster Post Office, North Duke Street. Now Lancaster City Hall. In background are the steeples of St. James Episcopal Church, First Presbyterian Church, Trinity Lutheran Church, First Reformed Church and the cupola of the Lancaster County Courthouse.
Construction of Post Office building - now City Hall building. Given to Mayor Kendig Bare by John Ward Willson Loose. Received May 8, 1954. Building erected in 1891.
Provenance
Gift of David Towle. See MG-747 Papers of Mayor Kendig Bare.
Penn Square, showing monument, The Lancaster Intelligencer, and Reed, McCann and Co., Bankers at corner of South Queen Street, and New Era Printing office on opposite corner; also shows building where clothing, wholesale notions and sewing machines, etc., are sold; on first floor next to Bitner, Hostetter and Long.
Pilot Jesse Jones at the controls of Ryan Brougham B-5 airplane owned by Howard M. Hersh at leased to Lancaster Airways, Inc. under an agreement dated November 8, 1929. This was the first enclosed cabin airplane available for passenger service at the Manheim Pike airport which had been established by Jones in 1927.
Group of men seated in Old Recorder's Office, second floor of the Courthouse. Identified left to right: Wm. Egerty Esq., Paul Mohler, Isaac Bechtel, Jay Caskey, W. Fryberger, Ann E. Davis Esq., Jacob Byrne, Esq., Ezra Brenner, O.P. Bricker, Esq., H. Nissley, Recorder, Geo. Keith, Dep.
The following note is also enclosed with the photo: "D. S. - The "Court House Isalnd patent" is for Bush Island in Manor Twp. The island location, as described in 1811, is: 150 perches from Lancaster shore, opposite the land of Isaac Kaufman and 3 perches below Archibald Hudder's Island. R. G."
Salem Church of God, 328 West Orange Street, Lancaster. Built in 1877, congregation dissolved in 1884. Property conveyed to Covenant United Brethren Church, 1884 to 1926. Became First Pentecostal Church, Assembly of God from 1927 to 1959. Theobald School of Ballet from 1959 to 1986. Now Community Mennonite Church of Lancaster.
Lancaster's "First Aviation Show" held in the Keystone Furniture Company Building, 2-4 West King Street, Lancaster, January 14-19, 1929. Tide Water Oil Company exhibit.
Lancaster's "First Aviation Show" held in the Keystone Furniture Company Building, 2-4 West King Street, Lancaster, January 14-19, 1929. Stevens Trade School exhibit.
Lancaster's "First Aviation Show" held in the Keystone Furniture Company Building, 2-4 West King Street, Lancaster, January 14-19, 1929. Pennsylvania Railroad exhibit featuring fast coast to coast travel.
Lancaster's "First Aviation Show" held in the Keystone Furniture Company Building, 2-4 West King Street, Lancaster, January 14-19, 1929. Fisher and Jacobs Engine Company exhibit.
